Translation of al-Maqrizi's "Ighathat al-Ummah bi-Kashf al- Ghummah"(Helping the Nation by Examining Causes of Distress)
FAIN: RL-*0499-80
Adel Allouche
Unaffiliated independent scholar
To support an annotated translation and critical edition of al-Maqrizi's "Ighathat al-Ummah bi-Kashf al-Ghummah." The work contains the Egyptian historian's views on the economic crises which beset Egypt from the middle 14th century to 1405, the year of the book's completion.